Acquire military supplies and services through competitive contracts
- Objective
- Bring a prototype into use
- Family / instrument
- Acquisition, transition and contract finance · Procurement
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Military-department Secretaries and other agencies within their express missions and valid delegations
- Executor · routing lead
- Warranted contracting officer and program manager
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Defined defense mission/requirement and available appropriation.
Commercial-product/service market research and statutory preferences; authorized contracting official.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Properly available procurement, services, O&M or other mission appropriation; authorization is not appropriation.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
General procurement is not blanket authority for loans, equity, unrestricted grants or another agency’s law-enforcement powers.
- Domestic-source, security, competition, labor and other applicable statutes remain; FY26 repealed former §3455 instead of treating it as current.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementRole recorded
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Express statutory pathway; award-specific appropriations, available balances, delegations, implementation and approvals not independently verified.
Actor sources
- P.L. 119-60 §1802 / 10 U.S.C. 1732 — portfolio plans, budgets, execution and reporting chain
- DARPA Contracts Management Office — award and administration roles
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Original research target October 2, 2026; published October 3, 2026. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.